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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
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I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
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We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
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He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.
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